The Media People | Media & Marketing Agency, London & Leeds
Independent media planning

Media should be guided by evidence 
 – not hype, and not habit.

The Media People is an independent media agency helping businesses grow through strategy, media planning, search, paid media, content and data. We start with your objectives, understand your audience and follow the evidence, not a predetermined channel.

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Clients we've worked with
Weston Homes
TVHA
MTVH
Southern Housing
Share to Buy
Regenta
Peabody
NHG Homes
London Square
L&Q
Legal and General
Hyde New Homes
Hill
Guinness Partnership
Every Student
City and Country
Churchill Living
Argent Related
A different starting point

We’re The Media People. Independent, curious and rigorous. We look at the bigger picture and technology — all to create clear, effective plans that grow your business.

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One plan for smarter media growth

Independent media strategy built around your goals, your audience and real evidence. We choose the channels last, and plan them all together.

Search and AI
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People still search on Google, and more of them now ask ChatGPT or Google’s AI Mode for an answer instead. We plan SEO, PPC and ChatGPT Ads as one channel, so you’re found wherever the question gets asked.

Paid media
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Programmatic, paid social, TV, radio, out of home and more. We plan and buy online and offline media side by side, and give every channel a clear job in the plan.

Content
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Content built from what your audience actually searches for and asks. It’s written to rank on Google and to be cited by AI assistants, with sources and named authors behind it.

Total Intelligence
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Our own data platform sits underneath every channel. Online and offline results are measured in one place, so every plan starts with the question that matters most: what actually worked?

Your sector
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We specialise in property and affordable housing, travel, retail, ecommerce, and health, wellness and beauty. So your plan starts from how your customers already search, compare and decide.

Independent
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We’re majority owned by our Employee Trust, with no holding group above us. So every channel we recommend is there because your objective needs it.

What we do

No two business problems are the same. So why should the media plan be?

From strategy and media planning to SEO, paid media, social, content, data and offline media, we bring the right disciplines together around the job that needs to be done.

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Strategy & Planning

Start with the right question.

Evidence-led media strategy built around your business objectives, audiences and opportunities, then planned and bought across every channel.

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What makes us different

How we’re built: three strengths, one system we’re very proud of.

Three strengths sit at the heart of how we work: curious people, intelligent technology and one unified view of your data. Each brings something different to the table. Together, they give us a clearer picture, better judgement and the ability to act on what matters.

Curious People
Curious People

Strategic, relentless and refreshingly human.

Intelligent technology
Intelligent technology

AI-first, best in class.

One unified view
One unified view

A single connected truth — Total Intelligence.

We don’t believe the answer.
We believe in finding what works.

We don’t believe the answer is always the newest channel, the biggest platform or the loudest trend. We believe in finding what works.

Ten years in

Ten years in, we’re still asking: 
how can we be better?

A decade in media has taught us a lot: what works, what doesn’t, and how quickly the landscape can change. We’ve spent ten years building expertise across strategy, paid and organic media, data and technology, while staying curious about what’s next.

Where we know the territory

We’ve learned a lot from the sectors we work in. More importantly, we’ve learned from the people in them.

We bring particular experience to property and affordable housing, travel, retail and ecommerce, combining sector knowledge with the wider media, search, content and data expertise businesses need to grow.

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Travel

Building awareness, consideration and action in a category where audiences are constantly moving.

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Property

From housebuilders and developers to shared ownership and retirement living.

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Retail & Ecommerce

Connecting discovery, demand and conversion across the customer journey.

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Awards

We’re proud of the recognition.
We’re prouder of the work that earned it.

Here are some of the awards we’re proud to have earned:
Winner, Transport, The Drum OOH Awards
Awarded, Top Ten Most Recommended Agency (UK), The Drum
Winner, Best Use of Classical Posters, The Drum OOH Awards
Finalist, Effectiveness, The Drum Recommends
Finalist, Best International Campaign, The Drum OOH Awards
A different starting point

Got a media challenge? Let’s work it out.

Tell us what you’re trying to achieve, where you’re stuck or what you think could work better. We’ll start with the problem, then work out the right media strategy, channels and next steps.

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    Insights

    Good thinking doesn’t follow the conversation. Sometimes, it starts one.

    Search is changing. Audiences are changing. Media is changing. We’d rather understand what’s happening than follow the noise.

    Our credentials & Partners

    Recognised by the people who know media.

    We’re proud to work alongside some of the biggest names in media, technology and our industry — and to be recognised for the work we do with our clients.

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